Johann Hari: Reclaiming Our Stolen Focus
A Life of Greatness
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You Don't Know How to Be Present, and You're Missing Your Life
We can only ever concentrate on one to two thoughts. E you said to adam, you don't know how to be present, and you're missing your life. The human brain has not significantly changed in forty thousand years. You can only think about one or two things at a time. What you do very quickly between them is the jug of water that was just saying to me: what's happening on the t show? Wait this message on facebook? We're juggling our consciousness over it quite well. And i'm an educated person. Yet i still get distracted by my phone. After reading your book, when i'm sitting there and doing work now, and i can hear the pings
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